I wrote about ICC having to clarify the rules a couple of posts back. I’ve now created a new “Gray Areas” category where I’ll post of any weird situations that I can think of. I’ve thought of several in the past, but never wrote them down, so I can’t remember them all off the top of my head right now. Here’s one to start off though.
Say the batsman gets an inside edge and ball then goes to nestle between his knee and pad (this has happened surprisingly often). Can a fielder then reach in and claim a catch?
June 19, 2006 at 4:41 am
If the anglo-saxons do it, it’d be “not exactly in the spirit of the game. but understandable - highly competitive”. For sub-continentals its gonna be “violating the gentlemanly spirit of the game”.
June 25, 2006 at 12:03 pm
I’d like to see a fielder “reaching in” inside a batsmans pad
- It’s not gonna happen!
June 25, 2006 at 7:00 pm
Fair enough. What if the batsman bends his knee to let the ball drop to the ground and the fielder dives and catches it? What then?